Jimenez breaks leg in skiing accident
Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez will be out of action for at least three months after a skiing accident during the festive season.
The 48-year-old, who became the oldest winner in European Tour history when he won in Hong Kong last month, was skiing in the Sierra Nevada mountain region on Saturday when he broke his right leg in a fall.
"I was going down a hill and lost control briefly and when I fell it was very sore," Jimenez was quoted as saying on the European Tour's website. "I knew immediately I had broken something."
Jimenez, one of Jose Maria Olazabal's vice-captains at the Ryder Cup in Medinah, was taken to the mountain medical centre for an X-ray before being transferred to a hospital in nearby Malaga, where he was operated on that evening.
"The medical staff at Sierra Nevada took me for an X-ray straight away and I am very thankful to them, as well as all of the staff at the hospital, for their quick and professional response," he added.
"I was playing very well at the end of the season so it is obviously not a good time for me to get injured. When I took up skiing I knew the risks that I was taking but I love it so much I could not stop."
